Ekiti PDP Slams ‘Childish’ Makinde For Mocking Fayose With EFCC Case

The Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has flayed Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, for mocking former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, with his trial by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

The Publicity Secretary of the PDP in Ekiti State, Mr Raphael Adeyanju, in a statement on Saturday advised Makinde to display maturity expected of a governor.

The party said it was shocking that a governor could be using EFCC case to mock Fayose, whose contributions towards the development of the party attracted politicians like Makinde to it.

The party said, ” It is rather unfortunate that someone like Governor Makinde, who was never a stable member of the PDP could use EFCC trial to mock Fayose, who was one of the last men standing for the party after it lost power in 2015. We would have ignore his display of political childishness and pettiness, but by choosing to go gutter with his mockery of Fayose, who is only being persecuted for standing firmly by the PDP in its hours of troubles, Engr Seyi Makinde has shown to the public that one can be a governor and still not be a leader.”

The Ekiti state PDP, while claiming that it is not written in the party constitution that when a zone has only one governor, that governor automatically becomes the leader of the party, challenged Makinde to swear that two All Progressives Congress governors in the South-West did not support his election.

The party counselled the governor to address the crisis in Oyo State PDP, rather than acting like a man who is running after cockroaches in another person’s house while his own house is infested with termites.

Adeyanju said, “As at 2015 that PDP lost power, Makinde was in Social Democratic Party (SDP). If commited leaders like Fayose, who stood by the party had left for other parties as he (Makinde) did, the governorship ticket of the PDP wouldn’t have been attractive to him when he returned to the party in 2018.

“That Governor Makinde now goes about mocking Fayose because of his trial by the EFCC, occassioned by his uncompromising stance against the misrule of the APC government shows that he (Makinde) is happy that Fayose and other leaders of the PDP are being persecuted with EFCC trials by the APC government.

“Isn’t it even instructive that the governor has failed in all the national assignments he undertook for the party? Is this not a sign that he has never been truly committed to the PDP?”

“If there is a state where urgent reconciliation is needed among PDP leaders, it is Oyo State where even the Deputy Governor, Rauf Olaniyan is complaining openly against the governor.”

“That someone is a governor does not translate to leadership. And by descending to the childish arena of mocking Fayose, who exhibited the rare courage and boldness of surrendering himself to the EFCC, it shows that those PDP leaders in Oyo State who have rejected his leadership were right after all.

“We will however wait till he finishes his tenure and see whether he will also be bold enough like Fayose, to report himself to be investigated by the anti-corruption agencies should he be invited for questioning.”